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ok, next question: how do you make sure you have a good mix?

Didn't see any additional options, other than "load troops at nearest"

You can garrison troops at the colony through the troop menu to prevent ships from picking them up. Garrison a good chunk of all unit types so there's a desired mix of units being loaded on board. I'm honestly not sure how the game decides what troops to pick up when told to load the ships.

If you're invading a colony and meet an insane level of resistance (like on homeworlds with fifteen+ billion people), sometimes it's worth it to kill a few people or five billion with nuclear bombardment to lower their strength enough so you can invade with a reasonable army. I keep a few ships armed with nuclear devastators for just such an occasion.

EDIT: I think the Distant Worlds equivalent of World War II just started. In a matter of three days, war was declared over twenty times between different empires. This'll be fun to watch.

With that, the Fire Gang, the greatest pirates the galaxy can remember, has been almost totally wiped out. They made the mistake of attacking Gizurea 1, the former homeworld of my empire's brothers and opponents. That colony had the entire retaliation fleet orbiting it, waiting to be sent out to the first place we found the Fire Gang's main force. They came to us and lost horrendously. The whole force was either destroyed or boarded and captured.

They supposedly own three colonies but none of the territory maps I've stolen from them support that. Their fleet has been cut down to four ships with 688 firepower between them, which even the most backwater modern empire could defeat. The Fire Gang's reign of terror is over, the final kill count for them being 101 destroyed ships/bases, three captures, and a single accomplished raid. Yet another obstacle crushed under the feet of the Gizurean Collective, now standing at fourty-two billion citizens in eight colonies.

Quick question, how do you land troops on your own planet from troop ships? Landing them on hostile planets is easy enough, I just can't figure out how to do it on my own planets to help stop a rebellion.

Hover your mouse over the colony with the ships selected. You should see the troop icon with a red arrow. Right click to unload forces.

The war is over, finally. The last weeks of it was spent bombarding their homeworld and killing five billion of our brothers before storming it with dozens of infantry formations. They had almost no opposition, free to stake the flag of the Gizurean Collective into the ashes. With the war against the Gizurean Conformity finished, my empire now has thirty billion people split between five colonies. My combat fleet is seventy ships strong with a cumulative firepower of 6898. My population and strategic value is at the top of the known galaxy and, aside from the ancient guardians, my economy is as well, although I hold seventh in territory and my military strength is fifth, out of ~25 empires packed into this third of the galaxy.

It was quite the war, however. The first blockade started 2150.07.07. Their homeworld was invaded and taken 2161.10.05. War was officially declared maybe six years in, but there was a number of skirmishes and covert operations beforehand. It was a bumpy ride. I very nearly stopped the war only two years in, but, just before I assaulted their homeworld (defended by a weapons platform and a port) they retrofitted their medium spaceport to a large one, which had sufficient additional firepower to repel my forces.

After that, I spent my time building my fleet, expanding my economy, and fighting off the seemingly infinite swarms of pirates coming from all directions. I reached the point where I was seriously considering throwing money at all the nearby pirates and hoping they would attack the Conformity for me. Nobody wanted to take my bounties on their defenses. I eventually improved my shields, maxos blasters, railguns, and ground forces, then made my move.

The Conformity had been in and out of conflicts with other empires and were actually in a state of war with two when I officially went to war. For no particular reason, empires completely unrelated to anything going on would smack me with worthless trade sanctions or give me meager amounts of credits. There's also apparently a pirate faction by the name of the Fire Gang that people are scared of, going so far as one of my long-time aggravators, the Ugnar Corsairs, merging with my empire out of fear. These bogeymen have roughly half the firepower of my empire between thirty ships.

With so much of my fleet thrown into that one attack, pirates and the few Conformity ships that escaped made a mess of outlying mining stations and took out a construction ship or two. Still, we're free now. It's time to rebuild what was broken and aim outwards once more. Let's see what the rest of the galaxy has to offer the Gizurean Collective.

Let's see: Another empire composed of the same race as me with a nearly identical flag and name just called my species inferior. Ah, Distant Worlds.

Not my death, but...
I think this city is untouchable. It's on a shitty, one-tile island, because every tile around it is beach. My land units can't attack it because of that. I have no free space to land my troops and I can't disembark on the city and storm it. As far as I can tell, I am literally incapable of attacking this city, and it is most likely the last city of my first contact and first enemy, the Mayans.

Call to Power 2.

1x1 singularities are basically useless for anything other than hopefully cascading into max-size murder trains. What happens if two singularities collide?

If you get tired of them, you can find their bases with fleets/spies and stomp them flat, too! I regularly murdered pirate factions that irritated me, which was often.